28 Rustic Wedding Centerpieces That Will Inspire Your Own

Show these bucolic big-day arrangements, full of foliage and flowers, to your florist.

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Photo: Plum & Oak Photo

If you're planning a rustic wedding in the countryside, chances are you want that theme to carry over onto your reception tables. Luckily, interpreting the rustic aesthetic with fresh flowers is as pretty as it gets. Earthy color palettes and unexpected accents, like fresh fruit and vegetables, all help transform floral table arrangements into rural-inspired pieces of décor that are sure to fit your vision—whether you're getting hitched in an actual barn or celebrating in the heart of a city.

Just take the following rustic wedding centerpieces, for example, which all brought pastoral vibes to tabletops. While no two arrangements are the same, we did notice some overarching motifs that you might want to pass onto your floral designer as you brainstorm your own tablescape's adornments. First up? Transitional foliage. While the rustic isn't always aligned with the autumnal—a rustic centerpiece can absolutely feature summer blooms!—fall shades, like burnt orange, yellow, and ruby red play right into the style. While keeping it all-green can still read as rustic (take this Bloom Babes and Joy n' Company tablescape, for example!) All you have to do is swap out pine or eucalyptus for colorful branches, instead.

But one of the most interesting on-theme accents has nothing to do with a centerpiece's floral components. Ultimately, the vessel you choose impacts the style of the arrangement just as much as the actual flowers. Ahead, you'll discover how different bases, like wooden urns, vintage enamel water jugs, tiny clear vases, and burnished bronze bowls, can all bring your tabletop displays to new, thoroughly rustic, heights. Click through to discover all of these bucolic centerpieces—they just might inspire your own.

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Silo Style

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Jose Villa

Mindy Rice arranged simple white buds and cherries in round tin vessels that referenced rustic silos.

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Garland

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Heather Waraksa

A rust-toned greenery garland from Saipua complemented this reception's farm tables, which were styled by AaB Creates.

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Enamel

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Melanie Duerkopp

An antique enamel water jug added a rustic touch to an otherwise summery poppy, tulip, and silver stachia arrangement by Natalie Bowen.

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Minimal

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Jessica Lorren

Small, clear vases filled with bushels of wildflowers (styled and arranged by the bride!) added a hint of lushness to this minimal tablescape. Mismatched vintage plates and cutlery and red-striped napkins further added to the rustic vibes.

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Harvest

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Rose McMahon

Honeysuckle Rose's sprawling centerpieces, crafted from transitional foliage, apples, berries, acorns, and fresh white blooms, introduced this The Heirloom setting's autumnal notes—but it was the pinecone place cards and grapevine chargers that helped it feel bucolic.

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Industrial and Rustic

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Leo Patrone Photography

This dynamic scene, featuring fern-centric arrangements by Sarah Winward, infused the rustic (note the wooden table, wild greenery, and chicken-wire votive candle holders) with the industrial, thanks to a metal, exposed-bulb chandelier and matte-black candelabras.

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Country Objects

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Heather Waraksa

So many parts of this tablescape's unique centerpieces, by Matthew Robbins Design, were inspired by objects you'd see on a farm—like the terracotta planters (filled with greens by Bellafare Floral Design), burnished metal pots, and even the copper table numbers, which looked like they could have once hung in a barn.

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Frosted Glass

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Matei Horvath

Planning Elegance used frosted glass hurricane vases to bring a distressed, rustic touch to these garden rose (a great summer-to-fall bloom!), thistle, and greens centerpieces by Shawna Yamamoto Event Design.

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Lots of Leaves

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Jose Villa

These dramatic, leaf-centric centerpieces, which were arranged by Mindy Rice, mimicked the color-changing trees on this farm venue's grounds.

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Wildflowers

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Jessica Antola

Pots of wildflowers—they were created with blooms from FiftyFlowers and supplemented with fresh pickings from the Hudson Valley, New York property—introduced a farm-to-table element to the gingham-clad reception tables.

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Boxed

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Jose Villa

Bright magenta blooms popped in wooden flower boxes—an interesting take on centerpiece vessels by Laurie Arons Special Events and Mindy Rice.

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Sweetheart Table Blooms

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Jana Williams

Everything about this couple's rustic sweetheart table, from the wooden "Mr. & Mrs." sign and metallic candles, to the dahlia-centric centerpieces, was country house inspired.

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Dried Flowers

Dried Flower Centerpiece

Clayton Austin

A mix of fresh (white peonies) and dried blooms (brown preserved sunflowers, strawflowers, and wheat) brought rural texture to this arrangement. Its wooden urn only added to the aesthetic.

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Nest Egg

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Jose Villa

A grapevine nest with speckled eggs gave this otherwise classic tablescape—a joint effort from Laurie Arons Special Events and Mindy Rice—a slightly-rustic vibe.

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Rustic and Modern

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Suzi Jacobs

Mariah Green Event's understated table, featuring Hello Honey Flower Co. palm leaves in glass bottles and enamel drinking mugs, proved that the rustic and modern aesthetics can definitely coexist.

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Season's Bounty

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Emma Barrow

Autumnal pomegranates, apples, plums, blackberries, and nectarines supplemented these Holly Bee Flowers arrangements (made rustic by quick fire hydrangea, cosmos, and scabiosa).

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Rustic Runners

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The Nichols

Thick candles and potted plants, thoughtfully arranged on pastoral, open-weave runners, dressed up these family-style farm tables, styled by The Nouveau Romantics.

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Accents

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Shannon Von Eschen Photography

This pared-back Greenwood Events tablescape's centerpieces were composed of multiple rustic accents, like antlers, fresh fruits, and antique candlesticks.

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Burgundy

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Michael Radford

Art with Nature created this ultra-romantic burgundy centerpiece using anemones, tulips, and lilies, then accented the entire arrangement with ferns and berries. The completed look was ideal for a fall reception.

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Foliage-Filled

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Jen Huang

Pink and burgundy dahlias were offset by tons of colorful foliage in this Poppies & Posies centerpiece. The gray candles and rustic picnic table setting only make the display feel more laid-back.

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Mix-and-Match

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Hot Metal Studio

Apples, warm-colored flowers, and other accents made these centerpieces seem fall-ready, but you could make the look work for any season by swapping the fruit. The mismatched vessels—cans, vases, and bottles—gave the arrangements a rustic vibe.

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Greenery and Blooms

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Lauren Kinsey

"We wanted to create a feeling of romantic moodiness," said planner and event designer Jessica Sloane of this tablescape. The result was a mix of greenery and blooms on a supremely rustic table.

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Lush

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VUE Photography

Guests were in for a double whammy at this fall wedding. An organic runner made the tabletops pop, while red and orange flowers (from Gertie Mae's Floral Design) hung above for seasonal flair.

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Vine

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Laura Dart

Vines by Consider the Wldflwrs, rosemary, and brass candeholders were all it took to spruce up these farm tables.

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Petite

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Q Weddings

Burlap and small glass vases filled with a few flower sprigs (they were created by Zinnia and Co.) topped reception tables.

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Outdoorsy

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Laura Murray Photography

Wooden stands held glass bottles of scabiosa pods, astilbe, and hydrangea at this outdoor wedding. Cori Cook Floral Design was responsible for these petite arrangements.

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Minimal

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Tonhya Kae Photography

The small buds in these Swell Botanics centerpieces had a minimal, but gorgeous presence.

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